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  • Abdul Razak Al-Sayigh

  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Office No. 2081 (2nd Floor- Extension building)
  • Ext. 6850
  • Email: alsayigh@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: Paleontology(Micro and Macro, Biostratigrapher)
  • Education: Ph.D. (University of Wales, 1999, UK)
  • Supervsion: Yes,with approval from college

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  • Abdullah Al-Fahdi

  • Title: Technician
  • Office No. 0080 (Ground Floor, Extension Building)
  • Ext. 6816
  • Email: fahdi@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: GIS and Remote Sensing
  • Education: MS.c (2011, SQU, Oman)
  • Supervsion: No

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  • Amani Humaid Al-Abri

  • Title: Assistant Professor
  • Office No. (2nd Floor- Extension building)
  • Ext. 6840
  • Email: amaniabri@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: Geomorphology / AI / Remote Sensing
  • Education: PhD. (Boston University, 2021, USA)
  • Supervsion: Yes, with approval from college

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  • Anas Hamood Al-Rashdi

  • Title: Technician
  • Office No. 0021 (Ground Floor, South Building)
  • Ext. 2284
  • Email: a.alrashdi3@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: Thin Section
  • Education: BS.c (2019, SQU, Oman)
  • Supervsion: NO
 
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  • Andreas Scharf

  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Office No. 2051 (2nd Floor- Extension building)
  • Ext. 6835
  • Email: scharfa@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: Structural Geology, Tectonics, Geodynamics
  • Education: Ph.D. (Freie University Berlin, 2013, Germany)
  • Supervsion: Yes, with approval from college

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  • Bader Al-Shaqsi

  • Title: Technician
  • Office No. 0047 (Ground Floor, Main Building)
  • Ext. 2232
  • Email: alshaqsi82@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: TDEM, Resistivity, GPR Differential GPS
  • Education: BS.c (2005, SQU, Oman)
  • Supervsion: No

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  • Bader Al-Waili

  • Title: Technician
  • Office No. 0086 (Ground Floor, Extension Building)
  • Ext. 6814
  • Email: baderw@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: Thin Section
  • Education: BS.c (2009, SQU, Oman)
  • Supervsion: No

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  • Hamdan Al-Zidi

  • Title: Technician
  • Office No. 0017 (Ground Floor, Main Building)
  • Ext. 2209
  • Email: zidi@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: Thin Section
  • Education: BS.c (1999, SQU, Oman)
  • Supervsion: No

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  • Hilal Said Al-Zeidi

  • Title: Superintendent
  • Office No. 2052 (2nd Floor, Extension Building)
  • Ext. 6836
  • Email: hilalz@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: Environmental Geology
  • Education: MS.c (SQU, 2009, Oman)
  • Supervsion: No

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  • Iftikhar Ahmed

  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Office No. 2055 (2nd Floor- Extension building)
  • Ext. 6839
  • Email: iftikhar@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: Sedimentology, Structural Geology,
  • Education: Ph.D. (University of Cambridge, 1989, UK)
  • Supervsion:  Yes, with approval from college

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  • Khalil Juma Al-Hooti

  • Title: Assistant Professor
  • Office No. (2nd Floor- Extension building)
  • Ext. 6837
  • Email: hooti@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: Seismic, Microseismic
  • Education: 
  • Supervsion: Yes, with approval from college

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  • Mohamed Moustafa

  • Title: Assistant Professor
  • Office No. 2048 (2nd Floor- Extension building)
  • Ext. 6849
  • Email: m.moustafa@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: Carbonate Sedimentology, Diagenesis, and chemostratigraphy
  • Education: Ph.D. (Texas A&M University, 2015, USA)
  • Supervsion: Yes, with approval from college

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  • Mohammed Abdussamad El-Ghali

  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Office No. 2074 (2nd Floor- Extension building)
  • Ext. 6852
  • Email: melghali@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy
  • Education: Ph.D. (Uppsala University, 2005, Sweden)
  • Supervsion: Yes, with approval from college

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  • Mohammed Al-Nadabi

  • Title: Technician
  • Office No. 0044 (Ground Floor, Main Building)
  • Ext. 1497
  • Email: mohammeds@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: Laboratory Management, Thin Section
  • Education: BS.c (2013, SQU, Oman)
  • Supervsion: No

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  • Mohammed Farfour

  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Office No. 2069 (2nd Floor- Extension building)
  • Ext. 6848
  • Email: mfarfour@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: Reservoir Geophysics-Seismic data interpretation
  • Education: Ph.D. (Chonnam National University, 2013, South Korea)
  • Supervsion: Yes, with approval from college

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  • Muhammad Qasim

  • Title: Assistant Professor
  • Office No. 2053 (2nd Floor- Extension building)
  • Ext. 6845
  • Email: m.qasim@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: Structural Geology & Tectonics
  • Education: Ph.D. (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2016, China)
  • Supervsion: Yes, with approval from college

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  • Muhammad Younis Khan

  • Title: Assistant Professor
  • Office No. 2064 (2nd Floor- Extension building)
  • Ext. 6844
  • Email: m.khan1@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: Geophysics
  • Education: Ph.D. (China, 2018, China)
  • Supervsion: Yes, with approval from college

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  • Musaab Shakir Al Sarmi

  • Title: Lecturer, On Study
  • Office No. 2067 (2nd Floor- Extension building)
  • Ext. 6846
  • Email: musaabs@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: Carbonate Sedimentology
  • Education: Ms.C. ()
  • Supervsion: 

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  • Osman Abdalla

  • Title: Professor, Head of Department
  • Office No. 2046 (2nd Floor- Extension building)
  • Ext. 6833
  • Email: osman@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: Hydrogeology
  • Education: Ph.D. (Technical University Berlin, 2000, Germany)
  • Supervsion: Yes, with approval from college

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  • Rifaat M Abdalla

  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Office No. 2075 (2nd Floor- Extension building)
  • Ext. 6847
  • Email: rabdalla@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: Geomatics
  • Education: Ph.D. (York University, 2006, Canada)
  • Supervsion: Yes, with approval from college

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  • Said Mohsin Al-Abri

  • Title: Technician
  • Office No. 0079 (Ground Floor, Extension Building)
  • Ext. 6813
  • Email: Said.m@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: Seismic, Magnetic, Gravity, VLF
  • Education: BS.c (2012, SQU, Oman)
  • Supervsion: No

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  • Salah Al-Khirbash

  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Office No. 2070 (2nd Floor- Extension building)
  • Ext. 6832
  • Email: khirbash@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: Economic Geology/Geochemistry
  • Education: Ph.D. (Nebraska-Lincoln University, 1987, USA)
  • Supervsion: Yes, with approval from college

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  • Shahira G. Al-Balushi

  • Title: Department Coordinator
  • Office No. 2050 (2nd Floor- Extension building)
  • Ext. 6834
  • Email: shahirak@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: 
  • Education: Diploma (Higher College of Technology, 1998, Oman)
  • Supervsion: No

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  • Sobhi Nasir

  • Title: Professor
  • Office No. 2060 (2nd Floor- Extension building)
  • Ext. 6841
  • Email: sobhi@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: Mineralogy, Petrology
  • Education: Ph.D. ( Würzburg University, 1985, Germany)
  • Supervsion: Yes, with approval from college

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  • Talal Al-Hosni

  • Title: Associate Professor, College Dean
  • Office No. 2046 (2nd Floor- North Building)
  • Ext. 6833
  • Email: hosni@squ.edu.om
  • Field of Interest: Environmental Geology
  • Education: Ph.D. (University of Melbourne, 2007, Australia)
  • Supervsion: Yes, with approval from college

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    blueprint  Postgraduate Students

     

     

    Name

    ID

    Thesis Title

    Supervisor(s)

    Issa Al-Shibli

    s105821

    NA

    NA

    Amna Alfazari

    s90224

    NA

    NA

    Latifa Al Maani

    s132182

    Analysis of the effect of grain coating clays on reservoir quality in Miqrat, Oman

    Dr Mohamed El Ghali,

    Dr Iftikhar Ahmed

    Shahad AlMahrooqi

    s115652

    Origin and Control of Grain-coating Clays on Reservoir Quality of lower Paleozoic Barik Formation, Huqf region, Oman

    Dr Mohamed El Ghali,

    Azza Al Hasni

    s113505

    Geomechanical risk assessment of fault reactivation

    Dr Khalil Al Hooti,

    Dr Andreas Scharf,

    Dr Mohammed Alamri

    Lababa Al Hilali

    s135988

    NA

    NA

    Alia Al Balushi

    s135985

    Bukha Northern Area Study

    Mohammed Farfour

    Anwaar ALMahrouqi

    s135986

    NA

    NA

    Marwa Al Riyami

    s125254

    Diagenetic Alterations and Reservoir Quality of Al Bashair Formation, in Mahatta Humaid, Huqf Region of Central Oman

    Dr Mohamed El Ghali

    Salma Al Rahbi

    s119580

    Diagenesis and reservoir quality of the Infra- Cambrian Ara carbonates (A1C) in the South Oman Salt Basin

    Dr. Mohamed ElGhali & Dr. Mohamed Mustafa

    Mazin Al-Salmani

    s10054

    Diagenesis, porosity and permeability evolution, and reservoir quality of the Late Neoproterozoic Buah Formation based on core data from east Central Oman

    Dr. Mohamed Moustafa, Dr. Mohamed El-Ghali, and Dr. John Smewing

    Elham Alnadabi

    s112430

    Petrophysical properties of the Late Carboniferous and Early Permian glaciogenic reservoirs: An example from Al Khlata Formation, Block 56, Eastern flank of South Oman Salt Basin

    Dr. Mohamed ElGhali

    Muthanna Al-Mughairy

    135989

    NA

    NA

    Mohammed Alhooti

    139835

    NA

    NA

    Aiman Al Taiwani

    139834

    NA

    NA

    Mithaa Al-Jabri

    132192

    Stratigraphy, foraminiferal paleontology and facies architecture of the Late Cretaceous post-emplacement Simsima Formation in Oman

    Dr. Iftikhar Ahmed

    Dr.Mohammed AL-Ghali

    Thuraiya Al Harthi

    115307

    NA

    NA
           
           

     

     

     

    Abdullah Al Fahdi

    s2541

    The late Paleocene–early Eocene carbonate system in the Sultanate of Oman: An overview from the subsurface Umm ER Radhuma Formation and its equivalent outcropped Jafnayn Formation

    Dr Mohamed El Ghali, Dr Mohammed Moustafa,

    Dr Abdulrazak Al-Sayigh,

    Dr. Abdulrahman Al Harthi,

    Dr Aaisha Al Hajri

    PhD

    Hanan Al-Hinai

    s24410

    Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment: A Case Study - Muscat Governorate

    D Rifaat Abdalla,

    Dr Talal Al-Hosni

    PhD

    Jenan Attar


    s91419

    Depositional Environments, Provenance, Hydrocarbon Potential & Evolution of the Oman Foreland Basin

    Dr Iftikhar Ahmed

    PhD
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